It’s time for The West, or America at the very least, to face facts: our collective Enlightenment beliefs of universal justice and personal autonomy are threatened by the very forces they unleashed: technological progress.

I’ve given up fighting the whole, “I refuse to Twitter thing.” I created an account and will be doing so from here on out. It seems a pointless thing, for the most part and most of the time. That being said, I had a long conversation with a guy who runs an SEO/internet advertising shop here in Austin. His reasons for doing so–twittering–were compelling. The reasons he gave me for doing so, at the time, seemed to be as well. We’ll see.

Austin culture is so extremely hyper-connected, but so disconnected from reality sometimes I have to laugh.